It is too easy a choice for the casual fan to stay at home on a Friday night for the TV gme instead of going to watch "their" team live, especially if the weather is bad. Sometimes 4 matches are scheduled for a Friday night when really it could be just one - the televised one. That way, you could argue that the TV figures would be greater.

Correct.
Load of garbage anyway. Wakey brought no more than 500-600 on Bank Holiday Monday with a 3pm kick off. For the sake of an extra taxi full of speccies from West Yaarkshire the Wigan club may as well stick with the Friday night games which has proven to be more popular with the HOME fans.

From a purely selfish point of view, I prefer Fridays. Straight out from work and straight to the bar afterwards - no mucking about.

Today was a nice change but it does seem to take the entire day.

Leeds also have the problem of ground sharing. Having a "TV friendly" Friday night fixture list at least means that very few games actually get moved about at the last minute.

That for me is the reason I love Sunday afternoon kick offs. Get up at 11am, pub for 1pm, kick off for 3pm, pub again for 5pm, home for 7pm. Day well spent.

Mind you I do remember the old Sunday depression hitting hard. Nothing worse than watching your side lose and then realising that it's 5pm and by the time you've got home and eaten the weekend has gone again. At least with a Friday night you can console yourself in the knowledge you've got two lie ins coming.

Pretty much same for me but i hvae sunday dinner at 1pm then get to the pub for half past with our games being 3.30pm kick offs, absolutley hate friday and saturday games.

The Friday tv choices that I've sat and watched (when Wigan haven't been playing) this season would push me to a match rather than choose to stay at home.

It's very very easy on a cold dark miserable Friday night ( first 7 games of season ) to go to the warmth of the Pub and watch the Live Sky game. I'm a York fan but 4 or 5 of us go and watch the Rhinos now and then, we don't even bother going while May anymore, most of the lads who go are casual fans NOT diehard fans and won't entertain a cold friday night, pub wins every time till May!

As a Rovers fan, ourteam still try & play the majority of our games sundays & it is nice to see a lot of primary school age kids watching. Personally I dont mind but would like all teams except the televised ones to kick off on Sundays as I am a shift worker & it is difficult to plan as I have to arrange holidays as every other weekend I am at work but that is just me & we can not please every one.

I can never understand, now that League is a summer sport, why the kick offs do not slot straight into the 3pm Saturday football kick offs once the football season has ended.

Surely this would be ok for most not taking into account the odd few that work shifts and have a televised game Friday and Saturday evening.

TV games Friday and Saturday nights. Full programme Sunday afternoon.

Afternoon games are awful. Even RU are starting to realise now, with Friday night kick offs in the Six Nations.

They move six nations games to friday evening to boost tv figures
put anything on tv on a friday night and it gets more viewers than on a saturday afternoon, looks good on the bid when you over pay the IRB for its tournaments AGAIN!

Why are they?

Because the fans of most club prefer sunday kick offs, sunday games get more fans in than saturday ones.